This House Is Not For Sale (2016) - Post Album Release Discussion

Originally Posted by Haja

I think the album is great for a Bon Jovi record in 2016. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to anyone who's not a huge Jovi fan but it does for me what I want a Bon Jovi record to do. I find myself humming the melodies quite often!



In terms of individual tracks I adore "Living With The Ghost", "Devil's In The Temple" (hell yeah), "All Hail the King" and "Scars On This Guitar". "Come On Up To Our House" is great as well as is the remix of "We Don't Run". Now for tracks that I don't like "Roller Coaster" is definitely on the top of that list. The verse melody is too similar to Imagine Dragons' "Demons" for my liking while the chorus melody reminds me of a Finnish children's song which is an association I don't appreciate either. I do enjoy the "it's a roller coaster..." part. But the associations to the other songs in addition to Jon's vocals in the chorus kill it for me so it's a song I skip. Other than that there aren't songs I feel like skipping although Reunion is rather boring. New Year's Day and God Bless This Mess are fun but very uninteresting (I like the lyrics on the latter). Other songs I enjoy more or less.



All in all I was pleasantly surprised by the album!



By the way (I haven't been following the discussion too closely), is anyone else reminded of Every Road Leads Home to You when they're listening to the verses of Born Again Tomorrow?

Originally Posted by Antman

I had absolutely zero expectations for this album in the lead up, but after reading all the positive comments, I really began looking forward to the release.
So after listening to the CD a few times, either through speakers or headphones with different volumes, the songs I like are:

This House Is Not For Sale,Living With The Ghost, Born Again Tomorrow, Rollercoaster, God Bless This Mess and All Hail The King

So So Songs
New Years Day, Knockout, Scars On This Guitar, Good Night New York, We Don't Run and The Devil's In The Temple

Songs to skip
Labor Of Love, Reunion, Real Love, Come On Up To Our House, I Will Drive You Home and Good Night New York

As an album IMO the first half is much stronger than the second, and patches for me become an insomniacs cure.
Is this the best since These Days? No way, I put The Circle, HAND, Crush and even Bounce in front, but at least it's better than What About Now and Lost Highway.

Overall I give it a 4/10

Only time will tell if this becomes a drink coaster or grower, hopefully the latter.

Originally Posted by Jeeper

4/10 seems an odd score. You like 6 songs, want to skip 6 & are on the fence with the rest. So it should be a minimum of 5/10?


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Originally Posted by FLAME-XIII

i love Jon's collaboration with Shanks, i love this sound, sounds almost like What About Now album
can't wait to get it on vinyl

Originally Posted by jovifan93

I know, don't feed the troll, but I almost spew out my coffee, as hard as I had to laugh